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Check using the organic search estimates in Ahrefs, those are usually pretty good and they keep quite a long history. You can also get similar estimates from SEMRush

Hi Anthony, There's unfortunately no setting in Google Webmaster Tools for this. Your best bet is to use IP detection logic to either totally block (return an error status code and no content) or serve a simple "our content is not available in your country" error page to all requests from IP addresses in the UK. You can do this by building your own reference database or using a service - there's also some freeware). (FYI: anyone on a proxy network can get around this.) Google does use "locale-aware" crawling, including appearing to crawl from other countries than the US (most likely through a distributed computing network), and the UK is likely high on the priority list for that. Google should pick up on this over time and stop including your pages in search results. But it may not be immediate. Best, Mike

I'm chiming in to add a vote for Mike's strategy. I've used the same strategy with great success when rebranding a business and moving it from one site to another.

Hi there. Yes, the global rule should work. However, there is a reason this is happening, and it look like there is an extra rule, which adds that trailing slash. Go through those new rules you've added, make sure that you don't have anything extra. Example might be "Redirect everything from old blog to new blog with adding trailing slash" or something. It's quite common error, so you should be able to figure it out. Also see when these 404s were discovered, if it was right after you did redirects, it means for sure, that some of the new redirect rules are messed up at some point. Cheers!

Are you sure that you have the right property selected in Google Search Console? there is a difference between www and non www. and http and https?

I would be interested to see whats going on with your "long tail game". Long tell keyword for me = money, So... I wouldn't jeopardize ranking for "Red Polo t-shirts" just to rank better for Polo t-shirts.  I would suggest maybe boosting up the unique content on your Product pages to make them rank better for specific long tails. I like the fact that all of my product pages are indexed individually just for the simple fact that I have a customer base that google's Part numbers. Those product pages show up every-time and almost every-time it rings the cash register.  This just might be something to think about... but if all of your product pages are duplicates then they are not helping with the long tail so I would say canonicalze them and redirect them to get rid of the dups and see if it helps with those head terms. Hope this helps Chad